Thai recipe for 4 people, takes only 12 mins; recipe has rice noodle, garlic clove, coriander, vegetable oil, prawn, turnip, sugar, egg, oyster sauce, fish sauce, beansprout, lime, spring onion, peanut and red chilli.
Phat Thai
Course: Thai
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
30 mins
Ingredients
- Coriander: 1 small bunch coriander, stems or roots finely chopped, leaves reserved
- Vegetable Oil: 50ml vegetable oil
- Garlic Clove: 4 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
- Red Chilli: 3 red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped
- Spring Onion: 1 bunch spring onions, sliced on the diagonal
- Egg: 3 eggs, beaten
- Sugar: 1 tbsp sugar
- Lime: juice 1 lime
- Prawn: 200g raw prawns, peeled
- Fish Sauce: 2 tbsp fish sauce
- Oyster Sauce: 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- Beansprout: 300g beansprouts
- Peanut: 100g roasted peanuts, crushed
- Rice Noodle: 400g thick, dried, flat rice noodle (banh pho), we used Thai Taste rice noodles from Waitrose
- Turnip: 85g pickled turnips, chopped (optional)
Directions
- Soak the noodles in cold water for up to 2 hrs, then drain and set aside. Using a pestle and mortar, pound the garlic with the chopped coriander stems or roots.
- Heat the oil in a wok over a high heat. When shimmering, add the garlic and coriander mix. Stir for a few moments, then add the prawns and pickled turnip, if using. Cook for 30 secs, then add the sugar. Add the noodles and stir for 1 min, making sure everything is well mixed. Add the eggs and cook for 2 mins more.
- Pour in the oyster and fish sauce, then add the beansprouts, lime juice, most of the spring onions, most of the roasted peanuts and most of the chilli. Toss and cook for around 2 mins, then serve scattered with coriander and the rest of the chilli, peanuts and spring onions.
